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c#xmllinq-to-xmlwhitespace
user1803368
user1803368

Reputation: 95

XDocument.Parse preserving unwanted whitespace

XDocument.Parse is retaining unwanted white space when parsing my XML. It appears that my XML is "not indented," which means that white space is retained regardless of whether or not I send in the LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace flag (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb551294(v=vs.110).aspx).

This means that when I have XML like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blah:Root xmlns:blah="example.blah.com">
  <blah:Element>
    value
  </blah:Element>
</blah:Root>

and then look at

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(blahXml);
xElement xEl = xDoc.Root.Element("Element");
string value = xEl.Value;
print value;

it will print "\n value\n" instead of "value".

How do I make XDocument.Parse always ignore white space regardless of whether or not I give it indented or not-indented XML?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1569

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167516

White space between elements can be ignored (e.g.

<root>
  <foo>foo 1</foo>
  <foo>foo 2</foo>
</root>

can be parsed into a root element nodes with two foo child elements node if white space is ignored or into a root element node with five child nodes: text node, foo element node, text node, foo element node, text node), but if an element contains some text data that includes white space then it is considered important. So your only option is indeed to use a method like Trim in the .NET framework or like normalize-space in XPath to have the white space removed when you process the element.

Upvotes: 1

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